CN109586360B

CN109586360B - Robot automatic charging method and device, charging pile and robot

Info

Publication number: CN109586360B
Application number: CN201811329974.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄富君
Original assignee: Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-11-09
Filing date: 2018-11-09
Publication date: 2020-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 2038-11-09
Also published as: US20200150676A1; CN109586360A; US11635766B2

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of robots, and discloses a method and a device for automatically charging a robot, a charging pile and the robot. The invention discloses an automatic robot charging method, which is applied to a robot and comprises the following steps: detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal; starting laser characteristic identification under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, wherein the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile; and performing piling processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal. According to the robot automatic charging method, the intelligent robot can quickly and accurately find the charging pile, and the automatic charging is carried out in the pile feeding process accurately.

Description

Robot automatic charging method and device, charging pile and robot

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the field of robots, in particular to a method and a device for automatically charging a robot, a charging pile and the robot.

Background

With the continuous development of science and technology, the application of the existing intelligent robot is more and more extensive, such as a cleaning robot, a bank service robot and the like. When detecting that charging is needed, the current intelligent robot can automatically return to a charging pile for charging. For example, cleaning machines people can independently carry out cleaning work indoor to when self electric quantity reaches the lower limit value that charges, independently get back to and fill electric pile and charge.

The inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art: use laser sensor to combine to use infrared sensor's mode to realize that the robot is automatic to get back to the function that fills electric pile and charge at present, use infrared sensor to follow the infrared guide signal who fills electric pile at a long distance promptly and arrive the position that is close to filling electric pile, closely pass through the mode of laser rangefinder, the position of adjustment robot, so that the robot can move to accurately going up a position, from going up a position and filling electric pile and carry out the butt joint, and can carry out the adjustment of position through the collision at last stake process, so that reduce the number of times of collision, thereby realize intelligent robot's automatic function of recharging. However, in the process of returning to the charging pile by the intelligent robot in the mode, if the obstacle is hollowed out, the robot can still receive the infrared guide signal through the hollowed-out position, so that the robot cannot recognize the obstacle and collides with the obstacle, and the speed of finding the charging pile by the intelligent robot is reduced; and when closely docking, if fill electric pile and other barriers's position when being close, can only realize filling electric pile and detect through the collision that does not stop, reduced the recognition efficiency who fills electric pile, increased the probability that the robot damaged. In addition, the infrared sensor is only used for searching the charging pile in a long distance, so that the speed of searching the charging pile is low, and the pile loading of the intelligent robot is slow.

It is thus clear that the in-process that gets back to charging pile at intelligent robot, how to improve intelligent robot discernment and fill accuracy of electric pile and accomplish fast and go up a stake, is the problem that needs to solve.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention aims to provide a robot automatic charging method, a device, a charging pile and a robot, so that an intelligent robot can quickly and accurately find the charging pile and accurately perform the pile loading process to automatically charge.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for automatically charging a robot, which is applied to the robot, and includes: detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal; starting laser characteristic identification under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, wherein the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile; and performing piling processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a device for automatically charging a robot, which comprises: the device comprises a laser ranging module, a laser characteristic identification module and a pile installing module; the laser ranging module is used for detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal; the laser characteristic identification module is used for starting laser characteristic identification under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, and the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile; and the pile feeding module is used for carrying out pile feeding processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a charging pile, which comprises: the device comprises a main body, a laser characteristic identification structure, an infrared guide signal transmitting structure and a charging interface, wherein the laser characteristic identification structure, the infrared guide signal transmitting structure and the charging interface are arranged on the main body; the laser characteristic identification structure is used for being identified by a laser characteristic identification mode started by the robot; the infrared guide signal transmitting structure is used for transmitting an infrared guide signal received by the robot; the charging interface is used for charging the robot after the pile feeding processing, wherein the robot carries out the pile feeding processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a robot including: sensing means, at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; the sensing device transmits or receives signals under the control of the processor, and the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, so that the at least one processor can execute the robot automatic charging method.

Compared with the prior art, the method and the device have the advantages that under the condition that the distance between the robot and the charging pile is smaller than the preset distance, the laser characteristic recognition is started, the charging pile is recognized in a laser characteristic recognition mode, and the robot is guided to carry out pile loading processing by combining laser ranging signals and infrared guide signals. If the hollowed-out obstacles appear, the robot can effectively avoid the collision of the robot due to the mistaken identification of the charging pile through the identification mode of laser characteristic identification, and the speed of pile installation of the robot is increased; meanwhile, under the condition that the robot and the charging pile are close to each other, the problem of an infrared guide signal emission blind area is solved through the combination of a laser ranging signal and an infrared guide signal, the problem that the charging pile fails due to the fact that the robot mistakenly identifies the charging pile under the condition that a barrier (such as a wall) and the charging pile are close to each other is solved through the combination of laser characteristic identification, the accuracy of charging pile identification is improved, and the pile feeding speed of the robot is increased.

In addition, under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, laser feature recognition is started, and the method specifically comprises the following steps: detecting whether collision occurs or not under the condition that the distance is determined to be smaller than the preset distance; if the collision is determined not to occur, starting laser characteristic identification, and carrying out laser characteristic identification in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal; and if the collision is determined, starting laser characteristic recognition and carrying out laser characteristic recognition on the collision object. According to the detection result of the collision, different laser characteristic identification schemes are determined, and the identification speed of the charging pile or the obstacle can be increased through the different laser characteristic identification schemes.

In addition, according to the recognition result of laser characteristic identification, laser range finding signal and infrared guide signal, go on the stake and handle, specifically include: under the condition of collision, acquiring a recognition result of laser feature recognition on a collider; if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected to exceed the preset collision frequency, outputting error information; if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected not to exceed the preset collision frequency, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal; if the collision object is determined to be the obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected to store the position information of the charging pile, determining a movement path according to the position information of the charging pile, reaching the position of the charging pile according to the movement path, and carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal; and if the collision object is determined to be an obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected not to store the position information of the charging pile, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal under the condition of determining that the obstacle is bypassed, and outputting error information under the condition of determining that the obstacle is not bypassed. Under the condition of collision, different pile installing strategies are determined according to the recognition result of laser characteristic recognition and the combination of the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal, different pile installing strategies are adopted according to different results, and the pile installing speed is improved.

In addition, according to the recognition result of laser characteristic identification, laser range finding signal and infrared guide signal, go on the stake and handle, specifically include: under the condition that no collision occurs, acquiring an identification result of laser feature identification in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal; if the obstacle is determined to be detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, the obstacle is bypassed, and pile mounting processing is performed along with the infrared guide signal; if the charging pile is detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, detecting the distance between the current position and the charging pile; determining the pile-installing position according to the currently determined distance and moving to the pile-installing position; and (5) carrying out pile feeding at the pile feeding position along with the infrared identification signal. In the case where no collision occurs, if it is determined that an obstacle occurs in the direction in which the infrared guide signal is emitted, it is not necessary to reconfirm through collision, reducing the probability that the robot has a collision.

In addition, before detecting the distance between the robot and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal, the robot automatic charging method further comprises the following steps: receiving an infrared guide signal; preprocessing the infrared guide signal and determining the direction of transmitting the infrared guide signal; and adjusting the movement direction of the robot according to the determined direction of the emitted infrared guide signal. Through the direction of motion of adjustment robot to make the robot move towards the position of filling electric pile, and then can confirm fast that fills electric pile's position.

In addition, according to laser rangefinder signal, detect and fill the distance between the electric pile, specifically include: emitting a laser ranging signal in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal; and detecting and charging the distance between the electric pile according to the laser ranging signal. In the direction of launching infrared guide signal, transmission laser range finding signal increases the probability that detects and fill electric pile.

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One or more embodiments are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, which correspond to the figures in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and which are not to scale unless otherwise specified.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a method for automatically charging a robot according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a detailed flowchart of a pile installing process of the robot in case of collision according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of laser feature recognition of a direction in which an infrared guide signal is emitted without collision according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of the identification of a charging post without a collision according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic flowchart illustrating a method for automatically charging a robot according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic view for determining a direction in which an infrared guidance signal is emitted according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of an apparatus for robot automatic charging according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a charging pile according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a charging pile according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic view illustrating a coverage range of an infrared guide signal of a charging pile according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural view of a robot according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural view of a robot according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous technical details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present application in various embodiments of the present invention. However, the technical solution claimed in the present application can be implemented without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments.

A first embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for automatically charging a robot. The robot automatic charging method is applied to robots, such as cleaning robots, bank service robots and the like. In the present embodiment, a cleaning robot is exemplified, wherein the robot is provided with a laser sensing device and an infrared guidance signal receiving device. The specific flow of the robot automatic charging method is shown in fig. 1.

Step 101: and detecting and charging the distance between the electric pile according to the laser ranging signal.

Specifically speaking, the robot can be according to infrared guide signal, to the direction motion of filling electric pile. Meanwhile, the robot can emit laser ranging signals at fixed time intervals to detect the distance between the robot and the charging pile, and can also emit the laser ranging signals in real time to detect the distance between the robot and the charging pile in real time, for example, if the laser sensing device is a radar, the distance between the robot and the charging pile can be detected in real time in a scanning mode, namely, the laser sensing device rotates for one circle (the circle is 360 degrees), 360 data can be obtained, and one degree corresponds to one data, wherein the data comprises three information of angle, distance and laser intensity; the angle is the angle of the object detected by the laser relative to the robot, and the laser intensity is the intensity information of the laser signal on the object; the robot obtains and fills the distance between the electric pile through obtaining in the data that laser signal obtained. In the embodiment, the time for transmitting the laser ranging signal is not limited, and the time can be set as required in practical application.

Step 102: and under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, starting laser characteristic recognition, wherein the laser characteristic recognition is used for recognizing the charging pile.

Specifically speaking, set up laser characteristic identification mark at charging pile, the robot opens laser characteristic identification back, and the robot launches laser characteristic identification signal, and this laser characteristic signal is beaten on this laser characteristic identification mark, and through the reflection of light/geometry characteristic of this laser characteristic identification mark, this laser characteristic mark can be discerned to the robot, and then discerns the charging pile that has this sign. The preset distance may be set according to actual needs, and for example, the preset distance may be determined according to the size and the movement speed of the robot. When the distance is determined to be smaller than the preset distance, the laser feature recognition function can be directly started, namely, a laser feature recognition signal is emitted. It can be understood that laser sensing device on the robot can include a laser sensor and a laser emitter, and laser emitter can be under the drive of motor, and rotatory 360 degrees, and then makes the robot can carry out laser characteristic identification to the object around this robot to taking place laser identification characteristic signal all around, detects whether to have and fills electric pile. Of course, the number of laser sensors and laser transmitters included in the laser sensor device of the robot is not limited to the above-mentioned number.

In another specific implementation, under the condition that the distance is determined to be smaller than the preset distance, whether collision occurs is detected, if no collision occurs is determined, laser feature recognition is started, and laser feature recognition is performed in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal; and if the collision is determined, starting laser characteristic recognition and carrying out laser characteristic recognition on the collision object.

Specifically, whether the robot collides or not is detected under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, an object for laser characteristic recognition is determined through collision detection, after the collision is determined, the laser characteristic recognition is carried out on the collided object, if no collision occurs, the laser characteristic recognition is carried out in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal, whether an obstacle exists in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal or not is judged, so that the obstacle can be recognized in advance, the obstacle is bypassed, and unnecessary collision is avoided.

Step 103: and performing piling processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

Specifically, whether a collision occurs is detected before laser feature recognition is started, and if the collision is determined, different pile driving strategies are determined under the condition that the collision occurs. The piling process of the robot in the event of a collision will be described in detail below.

In one specific implementation, in the case of collision, obtaining a recognition result of laser feature recognition on the collider; if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected to exceed the preset collision frequency, outputting error information; if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected not to exceed the preset collision frequency, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal; if the collision object is determined to be the obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected to store the position information of the charging pile, determining a movement path according to the position information of the charging pile, reaching the position of the charging pile according to the movement path, and carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal; and if the collision object is determined to be an obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected not to store the position information of the charging pile, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal under the condition of determining that the obstacle is bypassed, and outputting error information under the condition of determining that the obstacle is not bypassed. For convenience of understanding, the present embodiment will be described with reference to a specific flow, which is shown in fig. 2.

Step 1031: and acquiring a recognition result of the laser feature recognition of the collision object.

Step 1032: and judging whether the collision object is a charging pile or not according to the identification result. If the collision object is determined to be an obstacle, step 1033 is performed, and if the collision object is determined to be a charging pile, step 1034 is performed.

Specifically, the identification result of the laser characteristic identification is read, and whether the collision object is the charging pile or not is determined according to the identification result. For example, if the recognition result of the laser feature recognition mark is a, comparing the recognition result B of the laser feature recognition of the impact with the stored recognition result a, if the similarity exceeds a preset threshold (for example, the preset threshold is 90%), determining that the impact is the charging pile, and if the similarity does not exceed the preset threshold, indicating that the impact is not the charging pile.

It can be understood by those skilled in the art that in practical applications, other ways to determine whether the collision object is a charging pile may also be adopted, and are not listed here.

Step 1033: whether the robot stores the position information of the charging pile or not is detected. If so, step 1035 is performed, otherwise, step 1036 is performed.

Specifically, the robot is provided with a storage space, map information established by the robot is stored, and after the robot successfully completes pile charging, the position of the charging pile can be marked in the stored map. When the robot returns the pile to charge, under the condition that the distance between the robot and the charging pile is smaller than the preset distance and the collision object is determined to be an obstacle, whether the position information of the charging pile is marked in the stored map information is detected.

Step 1034: detecting whether the current collision frequency does not exceed a preset collision frequency; if so, step 1037 is performed, otherwise step 1038 is performed.

Specifically, the preset number of times of collision is preset, and the preset number of times of collision can be set according to actual needs, for example, 2 times, 3 times and the like. The robot is close to the charging pile due to the fact that the robot collides with the charging pile, the pile needs to be placed after the colliding object is determined to be the charging pile, and the robot is prevented from ceaselessly colliding with the charging pile to cause damage to the robot by detecting the number of times of collision.

It can be understood that, after the collision, the robot can confirm the distance between the object and the collision object through the laser ranging signal, and the infrared guide signal is combined to adjust the motion gesture of the robot, reduces the number of times that the robot collides with the charging pile.

It should be noted that, according to the laser ranging signal, the position in front of the charging pile and away from the charging pile by a preset distance can be calculated by using a mathematical trigonometric formula, and the charging pile is loaded when the charging pile moves to the position.

Step 1035: and determining a movement path according to the position information of the charging pile, and reaching the position of the charging pile according to the movement path, and then executing step 1038.

Specifically speaking, according to the position information of the charging pile and the current position information of the robot, the movement path of the robot reaching the charging pile is planned according to the A star map, and the specific planning process is not repeated here.

Step 1036: it is detected whether an obstacle is bypassed. If so, step 1038 is performed, otherwise, step 1037 is performed.

Specifically, whether the robot has circumvented the obstacle may be detected by the collision sensor, and if a collision occurs again, it indicates that the obstacle has not been circumvented, step 1037 is performed, an error message is output, and the process is ended. If no collision has occurred, indicating that the obstacle has been bypassed, step 1038 is performed.

Step 1037: an error message is output.

Specifically, the error information can be output through the prompt tone, and can also be sent to the user terminal to prompt the user to process. Of course, it is also possible to enter an error handling mechanism after outputting the error information, e.g. to stop the movement of the robot. The process ends when 1037 is executed.

Step 1038: and (5) piling processing is carried out along with the infrared guide signal.

In the following, the pile-setting strategy of the robot in the case of no collision will be described in detail.

In one specific implementation, under the condition that no collision occurs, acquiring an identification result of laser feature identification in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal; if the obstacle is determined to be detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, the obstacle is bypassed, and pile mounting processing is performed along with the infrared guide signal; if the charging pile is detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, detecting the distance between the current position and the charging pile; determining the pile-installing position according to the currently determined distance and moving to the pile-installing position; and (5) carrying out pile feeding at the pile feeding position along with the infrared identification signal.

For example, as shown in fig. 3, if the point a is a charging pile, a hollow stool is located at a preset distance, as shown in fig. 3, the robot receives an infrared guiding signal transmitted by the charging pile through a position L of the stool, and a laser characteristic identification signal transmitted by the robot is applied to a transverse leg L between stool legs, where a height H of the transverse leg L is greater than a height of a robot main body H1, but the height H1 is less than a height H2 of the whole robot, and at this time, since the stool has no identification of laser characteristic identification, the robot determines that the stool is an obstacle according to an identification result, and the robot directly bypasses the obstacle and performs piling along with the infrared guiding signal. If the position A of the charging pile is directly identified by the robot, no other barrier exists between the robot and the charging pile, as shown in fig. 4, the position of a pile-loading position C point on a map can be calculated according to the information of laser ranging and the trigonometric mathematical relationship, and the robot moves to the pile-loading position C and loads piles along with the infrared identification signal.

It should be noted that, if the position of the pile is determined, in the process of pile loading, when the position of the charging pile is detected to be deviated, the pile loading process is exited, the position of the charging pile is determined again, and pile loading is performed again.

A second embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for automatically charging a robot. The second embodiment is a further improvement of the first embodiment, and the main improvement lies in that: in the second embodiment of the invention, before the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile is detected according to the laser ranging signal, the infrared guide signal is received, and the moving direction is adjusted according to the infrared guide signal. The specific flow is shown in fig. 5.

Step 201: an infrared guidance signal is received.

Specifically speaking, when the robot detects that self electric quantity reaches the electric quantity lower limit, fill electric pile transmission infrared guide signal, this infrared guide signal is received to the robot, fills electric pile's position through infrared guide signal search. It is understood that the robot is provided with a plurality of infrared guide signal receiving sensors, such as 2, 4, etc., for receiving the infrared guide signal as much as possible.

Step 202: and preprocessing the infrared guide signal and determining the direction of transmitting the infrared guide signal.

Specifically, the infrared guide signal is decoded, and the direction of transmitting the infrared guide signal is determined according to the strength of the received infrared guide signal. For example, as shown in fig. 6, if the robot is provided with A, B, C, D four infrared guide signal receiving sensors, and the charging pile is provided with infrared guide signal emitting sensors at

positions

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively, then if the infrared guide signal received by the sensor at point C is the strongest, it can be confirmed that the direction in which the infrared guide signal is emitted is the direction toward the position of the charging pile 3.

Step 203: and adjusting the movement direction of the robot according to the determined direction of the emitted infrared guide signal.

Specifically speaking, the forward direction of the robot is adjusted to the direction facing the infrared guide signal emission, the forward direction of the robot is adjusted, and the position of the charging pile searched by the robot is accelerated.

Step 204: and detecting and charging the distance between the electric pile according to the laser ranging signal.

Specifically, in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal, emitting a laser ranging signal; and detecting and charging the distance between the electric pile according to the laser ranging signal. Only emitting laser ranging signal in the direction of emitting infrared guide signal can increase the probability of detecting the electric pile of filling.

Step 205: and under the condition that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, starting laser characteristic identification, wherein the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile.

Step 206: and performing piling processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

It should be noted that steps 204 to 206 in this embodiment are substantially the same as steps 101 to 103 in the first embodiment, and will not be described again here.

The steps of the above methods are divided for clarity, and the implementation may be combined into one step or split some steps, and the steps are divided into multiple steps, so long as the same logical relationship is included, which are all within the protection scope of the present patent; it is within the scope of the patent to add insignificant modifications to the algorithms or processes or to introduce insignificant design changes to the core design without changing the algorithms or processes.

A third embodiment of the present invention relates to an automatic robot charging apparatus 30 including: a laser ranging module 301, a laser feature recognition module 302 and a staking module 303. The specific structure of the device is shown in fig. 7.

The laser ranging module 301 is used for detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal; the laser feature recognition module 302 is configured to, in a case that the determined distance is smaller than the preset distance, start laser feature recognition, where the laser feature recognition is used for recognizing the charging pile; and a pile installing module 303, configured to perform pile installing processing according to the identification result of the laser feature identification, the laser ranging signal, and the infrared guidance signal.

It should be understood that this embodiment is an example of the apparatus corresponding to the first embodiment, and may be implemented in cooperation with the first embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the first embodiment are still valid in this embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce repetition. Accordingly, the related-art details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the first embodiment.

It should be noted that each module referred to in this embodiment is a logical module, and in practical applications, one logical unit may be one physical unit, may be a part of one physical unit, and may be implemented by a combination of multiple physical units. In addition, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present invention, elements that are not so closely related to solving the technical problems proposed by the present invention are not introduced in the present embodiment, but this does not indicate that other elements are not present in the present embodiment.

A fourth embodiment of the present invention relates to a charging pile. This fill electric pile is used for providing the interface that charges for the robot, should fill electric pile and include: a main body 401, and a laser feature recognition structure 402, an infrared guide signal emission structure 403 and a charging interface (not shown in fig. 8) provided on the main body 401; the specific structure is shown in fig. 8.

In one specific implementation, the laser feature recognition structure 402 is used for being recognized by a laser feature recognition mode that is started by a robot; an infrared guiding signal transmitting structure 403 for transmitting an infrared guiding signal received by the robot; the charging interface is used for charging the robot after the pile feeding processing, wherein the robot carries out the pile feeding processing according to the identification result of the laser characteristic identification, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal.

Specifically, the shape of the charging pile body 401 may be a rectangular parallelepiped shape or a cylindrical shape, and this embodiment is not limited to this, and a rectangular parallelepiped body will be described as an example in this embodiment. The laser feature recognition structure 402 is disposed on the front surface of the main body 401, the laser feature recognition structure 402 has different reflection intensities for the laser feature recognition signal, the laser feature recognition structure 402 may be disposed as a black and white spaced feature plate, as shown in fig. 8, of course, the black portion in fig. 8 may be disposed in a concave shape to increase the reflection intensity. The infrared guidance signal emitting structure 403 does not overlap the laser feature recognition structure 402 and may be disposed below the laser feature recognition structure 402 as shown in fig. 8. The position of the charging interface is adapted to the charging interface of the robot, and the position of the charging interface is not described herein.

Compared with the prior art, the laser characteristic identification structure and the infrared guide signal transmitting structure are arranged on the charging pile, the probability of correct identification of the charging pile is increased through the laser characteristic identification structure, the infrared guide signal transmitting structure is arranged, so that the charging pile and the robot can find the position of the charging pile quickly according to the infrared guide signal transmitted by the charging pile under the condition of being far away, and the probability of correct identification of the charging pile is improved.

A fifth embodiment of the present invention relates to a charging pile. The present embodiment is a further improvement of the fourth embodiment, and the main improvement is that specific positions of the laser feature recognition structure and the infrared guidance signal emission structure are defined in the present embodiment. The specific structure is shown in fig. 9.

In one particular implementation, the height of the laser feature recognition structure 402 in the region where the body 401 is located is greater than the robot body height; the height of the infrared guiding signal emitting structure 403 in the area where the main body 401 is located is the same as the height of the robot main body; the charging interface is arranged at one side of the main body 401 with the laser characteristic recognition structure 402 and the infrared guide signal emission structure 403.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 9, the height of the robot body is H, the overall height of the robot is H, the infrared guidance signal emitting structure 403 is disposed in the region of the body 401 with the height H, and the laser feature recognition structure 402 is disposed in the region higher than H. Wherein, the infrared guiding signal emitting structure 403 includes at least 4 infrared guiding signal emitting sensors, which are respectively and uniformly disposed in the region with the height h of the main body 401. In the present embodiment, 5 infrared guiding signal emitting sensors are adopted and are respectively arranged at

positions

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 as shown in fig. 9, wherein 2 and 3 are respectively two sides of the middle position of the

main body

401, 5 is the middle position of the top of the main body 401, and the infrared guiding signal is emitted at the position 5, which will form a near-ground signal of a near point. Fig. 10 is a schematic view of coverage of the infrared guiding signal of the charging pile, and an oval dotted line in fig. 9 is coverage of the generated infrared guiding signal.

The electric pile that fills that this embodiment provided highly sets up laser feature identification structure and infrared guide signal emission structure according to the robot, improves the robot and manages this feature identification structure by the probability of discernment to and improve infrared guide signal's coverage.

A sixth embodiment of the present invention relates to a robot. The method comprises the following steps: sensing means 601, at least one processor 602; and a memory 603 communicatively coupled to the at least one processor 602; wherein the sensing device 601 transmits or receives signals under the control of the processor 602, and the memory 603 stores instructions executable by the at least one processor 602, and the instructions are executed by the at least one processor 602, so that the at least one processor 602 can execute the method for automatically charging a robot according to the first embodiment or the second embodiment. The structure of the robot is shown in fig. 11.

The memory and the processor are connected by a bus, which may include any number of interconnected buses and bridges, linking together one or more of the various circuits of the processor and the memory. The bus may also link various other circuits such as peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, will not be described any further herein. A bus interface provides an interface between the bus and the transceiver. The transceiver may be one element or a plurality of elements, such as a plurality of receivers and transmitters, providing a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. The data processed by the processor is transmitted over a wireless medium via an antenna, which further receives the data and transmits the data to the processor.

The processor is responsible for managing the bus and general processing and may also provide various functions including timing, peripheral interfaces, voltage regulation, power management, and other control functions. And the memory may be used to store data used by the processor in performing operations.

A seventh embodiment of the present invention relates to a robot. This embodiment is a further improvement of the sixth embodiment, and is mainly improved in that the specific position where the sensing means is provided is defined in this embodiment. The specific structure is shown in fig. 12.

In a specific implementation, the sensing device includes a laser sensing device 6011 and an infrared guiding signal receiving device 6012; the laser sensing device 6011 is disposed on the top of the robot body 6013, and includes at least one laser sensor and at least one laser emitter; the infrared guiding signal receiving apparatus 6012 includes at least 2 infrared guiding signal receiving sensors, where the at least 2 infrared guiding signal receiving sensors are disposed on a front portion of the robot main body 6013 and a surface perpendicular to the ground, and the front portion is a portion of the robot main body facing the forward direction during the movement of the robot.

Specifically, the shape of the robot may be a cylindrical shape or a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the shape of the robot is not limited in the present embodiment, which will be described by taking a cylindrical robot as an example. In this embodiment, for example, the laser sensor 6011 includes one laser sensor and one laser emitter, and 4 infrared guide signal receivers are taken as an example for explanation, as shown in fig. 12, a laser sensing device 6011 is disposed on the top of the robot body, one laser emitter is connected to the motor, the laser transmitter is driven by the motor to rotate 360 degrees at the top of the robot body to transmit laser characteristic signals or laser ranging signals, meanwhile, the laser sensor receives the returned laser characteristic signal or the returned laser ranging signal, wherein the robot main body is 6013 in fig. 12, the infrared guidance signal receiving apparatus 6012 is provided at the front, at least 4 infrared guide signal receiving sensors are provided at the side of the front portion as shown in fig. 12, the position of the sensor corresponds to the position of the infrared guide signal emission sensor of the charging pile.

The robot that this embodiment provided sets up a plurality of infrared guide signal receiving sensor, and the probability that the increase robot received infrared guide signal places laser sensing device at the top of robot main part simultaneously, avoids laser signal's sheltering from.

It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the foregoing embodiments are specific examples for carrying out the invention, and that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in practice.

Claims

1. A robot automatic charging method is applied to a robot and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal;

starting laser characteristic identification under the condition that the distance is smaller than a preset distance, wherein the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile;

according to laser characteristic identification's recognition result, laser rangefinder signal and infrared guide signal, go on piling up and handle, specifically include:

under the condition that no collision occurs, acquiring an identification result of laser feature identification in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal;

if the obstacle is determined to be detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, bypassing the obstacle and performing pile installing processing along with the infrared guide signal;

if the charging pile is detected in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal according to the identification result, detecting the distance between the current position and the charging pile;

determining the pile-loading position according to the currently determined distance and moving to the pile-loading position;

pile feeding is carried out at the pile feeding position along with the infrared identification signal;

and under the condition that the distance is determined to be smaller than the preset distance, starting laser feature recognition, which specifically comprises the following steps:

detecting whether a collision occurs under the condition that the distance is determined to be smaller than a preset distance;

if the collision is determined not to occur, starting laser characteristic identification, and carrying out laser characteristic identification in the direction of transmitting the infrared guide signal;

if the collision is determined, starting laser characteristic recognition, and performing laser characteristic recognition on the collision object;

under the condition of collision, acquiring a recognition result of laser feature recognition on a collider;

and if the collision object is determined to be an obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected to store the position information of the charging pile, determining a movement path according to the position information of the charging pile, reaching the position of the charging pile according to the movement path, and carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal.

2. The method for automatically charging a robot according to claim 1, wherein the pile-installing process is performed according to the recognition result of the laser feature recognition, the laser ranging signal, and the infrared guidance signal, and specifically further comprises:

if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected to exceed the preset collision frequency, outputting error information;

if the collision object is determined to be the charging pile according to the recognition result, and the current collision frequency is detected not to exceed the preset collision frequency, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal;

and if the collision object is determined to be an obstacle according to the recognition result and the robot is detected not to store the position information of the charging pile, carrying out pile loading processing along with the infrared guide signal under the condition that the collision object bypasses the obstacle, and outputting error information under the condition that the collision object does not bypass the obstacle.

3. The method for robot automatic charging according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein before detecting the distance to the charging post according to the laser ranging signal, the method for robot automatic charging further comprises:

receiving the infrared guide signal;

preprocessing the infrared guide signal and determining the direction of transmitting the infrared guide signal;

and adjusting the movement direction of the robot according to the determined direction of the emitted infrared guide signal.

4. The method for robot automatic charging according to claim 3, wherein the detecting the distance to the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal specifically comprises:

emitting a laser ranging signal in the direction of emitting the infrared guide signal;

and detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal.

5. An apparatus for robotic automatic charging, comprising: the device comprises a laser ranging module, a laser characteristic identification module and a pile installing module;

the laser ranging module is used for detecting the distance between the charging pile and the charging pile according to the laser ranging signal;

the laser characteristic identification module is used for starting laser characteristic identification under the condition that the distance is determined to be smaller than a preset distance, and the laser characteristic identification is used for identifying the charging pile;

the pile feeding module is used for carrying out pile feeding processing according to the identification result of laser characteristic identification, laser ranging signals and infrared guide signals, and specifically comprises the following steps:

6. A charging pile, comprising: the device comprises a main body, a laser characteristic identification structure, an infrared guide signal emission structure and a charging interface, wherein the laser characteristic identification structure, the infrared guide signal emission structure and the charging interface are arranged on the main body;

the laser characteristic identification structure is used for being identified by a laser characteristic identification mode started by the robot;

the infrared guide signal transmitting structure is used for transmitting an infrared guide signal received by the robot;

the charging interface is used for charging the robot after the pile feeding process, wherein the robot carries out the pile feeding process according to the recognition result of the laser characteristic recognition, the laser ranging signal and the infrared guide signal, and the charging interface specifically comprises:

7. The charging pile of claim 6, wherein the laser feature recognition structure is higher than the robot body in the area where the body is located;

the height of the infrared guiding signal transmitting structure in the area where the main body is located is the same as that of the robot main body;

the charging interface is arranged on one side of the main body, which is provided with the laser characteristic identification structure and the infrared guide signal emission structure.

8. A robot, comprising: sensing means, at least one processor; and the number of the first and second groups,

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the sensing device transmits or receives signals under the control of the processor,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform a method of automatic charging of a robot as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4.

9. The robot according to claim 8, wherein the sensing means includes a laser sensing means and an infrared guide signal receiving means;

the laser sensing device is arranged at the top of the robot main body and comprises at least one laser sensor and at least one laser emitter;

the infrared guiding signal receiving device comprises at least 2 infrared guiding signal receiving sensors, wherein the at least 2 infrared guiding signal receiving sensors are arranged on the front portion of the robot main body and one surface perpendicular to the ground, and the front portion is the portion, facing the advancing direction, of the robot main body in the moving process of the robot.